One family’s unique situation
Michelle (front) and Dwayne Allen listen during Monday night’s Clinton City Schools Town Hall meeting
They homeschooled their four “biological” children.
“It was just a choice we made,” Dwayne Allen said. “They have degrees, doctorates, and live successful lives.”
Their other six children are adopted and attend public schools — running the gamut from elementary school to middle school to high school. Those six children are enrolled in Clinton City Schools and Anderson County Schools.
And they don’t have a negative thing to say about either system.
“We’ve never had a problem with either system,” Michelle said. “We very pleased with their schools.”
What makes the Allens unique — and why they attended Monday night’s Clinton City School System’s “Town Hall” meeting to discuss the exploration of adding and seventh and eighth grade to the system — is a child in Clinton City system.
“She can handle elementary school where there are 250 kids in the whole school,” Michelle said. “But when she gets into a school that has 250 per grade level … We’re afraid it’s going to overwhelm her.”
So the Allens said they will probably turn to an old standby that has served their children well in the past: Homeschool.
Do the Allens favor Clinton City Schools adding a middle school?
“I think it needs to be done,” Michelle said. “I wish it had been done sooner.”
Not because any other school system is bad, but because of a young girl who they will be overwhelmed at a larger school.